Europe won’t be scrapping the Safe Harbor deal with the US just yet. But no-one should relax just yet as the European Commission yesterday presented the US with a list of demands that seem unlikely to do much to improve European/US relations.
For those in the European Commission with grand ambitions for standardization of cloud strategies, the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security has a tough message.
We have always been at war with Eurasia. We never promised more open government. We have not said we'd match the previous government's spending commitments. We have not attempted to rewrite uncomfortable realities.
How to deal with the NSA problem? Sensible debate or over-react by calling the cloud unsafe? EPIC knows which option to choose: the wrong one!
Cloud for Europe is supposed to unleash cross-border public sector procurement of cloud services, but the project has failure written all over it
Does Europe have a bad case of Silicon Envy? And if it does, how best to shake this off and take a more positive outlook on developing a European technology industry?
A progress update on Europe's policy moves to encourage uptake of cloud computing with a strategy for standards, a code of conduct and industry partnership
Cloud industry players have been lobbying policy makers to take them seriously. Now that they have their attention, they are complaining.
The EU's plans to harmonize data protection have stirred a crucible of strong emotions that play across three separate dimensions
The European Parliament's civil liberties and home affairs committee will next week vote on more than 4000 amendments to highly controversial data protection proposals which could have a major impact on the global digital economy.
Conflicting viewpoints and a fast timetable are putting pressure on Europe's high-stakes efforts to define its cloud strategy.
